ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: heck it's amazing to be aliveARQUIUSPRITE: Oh fiddlesticks, I'm just a torrential font of absolutely e%ecrable obscenity. My badARQUIUSPRITE: I'm just so e%cited, feeling all these STRONG feelings and thinking all these HARD thoughtsARQUIUSPRITE: Horsefeathers, my brain is so POWERFUL, it is operating in great strides like a towering musclebeast storming into battleARQUIUSPRITE: And these feelings. Dirk, these feelingsARQUIUSPRITE: There is a 100% probability that I love being aliveARQUIUSPRITE: And there is a 100 to the 100th POWER % certainty that I love being STRONGDIRK: Uh.DIRK: Wow?ARQUIUSPRITE: 100k how red I am, dudeARQUIUSPRITE: I'm so red, how sick is thatARQUIUSPRITE: It'sARQUIUSPRITE: Deplorable?ARQUIUSPRITE: Ill, dog. I'm basically titillated hereARQUIUSPRITE: Are you scoping this grody debasementDIRK: What?ARQUIUSPRITE: That ain't rightARQUIUSPRITE: Makes a man wanna holler improprieties, do you feel me?ARQUIUSPRITE: Let's talk about horsesDIRK: Horses...ARQUIUSPRITE: Horses dudeARQUIUSPRITE: HorsesARQUIUSPRITE: Nuff saidARQUIUSPRITE: Do we have any milk?ARQUIUSPRITE: Ooh. What about a bow and arrow, are there any of those around?ARQUIUSPRITE: I'm jonesing HARD to tug at one, all like, reevaluate my proficiency at the most noble disciplineDIRK: Can you calm down?ARQUIUSPRITE: What about milk, dudeARQUIUSPRITE: It seems I demand milkDIRK: We don't have any milk.ARQUIUSPRITE: Oh yeahARQUIUSPRITE: Just a lot of orange fizzy swillARQUIUSPRITE: What was occurring in your think pan to accumulate such vile libationsARQUIUSPRITE: Just FYI, milk is the nectar of KINGS you nincompoopDIRK: Roxy might have some in her fridge. I don't know.ARQUIUSPRITE: Touch my muscles DirkDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: Yes, do itDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: I command youDIRK: Fuck no.ARQUIUSPRITE: What ifARQUIUSPRITE: I touched your musclesARQUIUSPRITE: Like for comparison's sakeDIRK: Please don't touch me.ARQUIUSPRITE: Wait what ifARQUIUSPRITE: Good heavensARQUIUSPRITE: A rather inappropriate thought just galloped across my matri%ARQUIUSPRITE: What ifARQUIUSPRITE: You ordered me to touch your musclesDIRK: I'm not going to do that either.ARQUIUSPRITE: I demand that you order me to touch your musclesDIRK: Absolutely not.ARQUIUSPRITE: Do itDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: No.ARQUIUSPRITE: YesDIRK: Ok, if I touch your fucking muscles, will you shut up?ARQUIUSPRITE: Maybe

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.